Vancouver Style - Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Vancouver Style - Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Vancouver Style - Journal of Nepal Medical Association
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• Legal Material<br />
Note: (s = section <strong>of</strong> act, r = regulation)<br />
Pharmacy Act 1976 (Qld)<br />
Airlines Equipment Amendment Act 1981 (Cwlth), s. 19(1)(a)(ii)<br />
Public Service Regulations (Cwlth), r.83(2)(a)(ii)<br />
• CITING A JOURNAL ARTICLE<br />
The essential details required are (in order):<br />
1. Name/s <strong>of</strong> author/s <strong>of</strong> the article.<br />
See step 1 <strong>of</strong> "Citing a book" for full details.<br />
2. Title <strong>of</strong> article.<br />
See step 2 <strong>of</strong> "Citing a book" for full details.<br />
Example 2.1: Validation <strong>of</strong> an immunoassay for measurement <strong>of</strong> plasma total<br />
homocysteine.<br />
3. Title <strong>of</strong> journal (abbreviated).<br />
• Abbreviate title according to the style used in Medline. A list <strong>of</strong><br />
abbreviations can be found at:<br />
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgidb=journals<br />
• Note: no punctuation marks are used in the abbreviated journal name –<br />
just spaces.<br />
Format: journal title abbreviation (1 space)<br />
Example 3.1: Bol Soc Dent Guatem<br />
Example 3.2: J Mol Biol<br />
4. Year (and month/day if necessary/available) <strong>of</strong> publication.<br />
• Abbreviate the month to the first 3 letters.<br />
Format: year (1 space) month (1space) day (semi-colon, no space) OR<br />
year (semi-colon, no space)<br />
Example 4.1: 1996 Jun 1;12(5):127-33.<br />
5. Volume number (and issue/part -).<br />
• *If the journal has continuous page numbering through volume’s issues,<br />
the month/day and issue information may be omitted.<br />
Format: volume number (no space) issue number in brackets (colon, no<br />
space) OR volume number (colon, no space)<br />
Example 5.1: 1996;12(5):127-33. or 1996;12:127-33<br />
6. Page numbers<br />
NOTE: do not repeat digits unnecessarily<br />
Format: page numbers (full-stop)<br />
Example 6.1: 531-5<br />
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